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Inside Microsoft's New Digital Photo Project

Posted by michael on from the wear-good-socks dept.

robyn217 writes "While Microsoft Research plays 'Big Brother' to a young hiker's trip across North America, it breaks new ground in digital photography by combining metadata, like location via GPS, with the image. Its online presence looks impressive as it displays digital photo albums on a map of the world, but it's slow and unwieldy for the most part and may not be better than a standard travelogue site. This week, I took a closer look at the project currently named the World-Wide Media eXchange (WWMX)."

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  1. Kind of unimpressive by Geoffd1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oops, page was /.ed.

    Anyways, I have to glean my premises from the content of the post.

    This does not seem a very impressive acheivement to me - simply bring a digital camera, and a GPS with enough marker memory. Then feed the results into your friendly neighborhood PHP engine upon returning to your domicile.

  2. looks like geo-experts 4 a buncha microserfs:-P by airdrummer · · Score: 0, Troll

    from the Introduction Slide Show link:

    "This presentation contains content that your browser may not be able to show properly. This presentation was optimized for more recent versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer."

    probably means it just fucks over non-ie browsers... mozilla just gives a black box:-P